Regarding your Virginia segment in yesterday's post; we are absolutely sick about this whole thing. Our family escaped California seven years ago and by two years in to living here I began to fret about Virginia turning into CA. And, so, it has begun. Once again three counties control the entire state with diametrically different goals from RoVA. Living in NoVa, it feels like we live in Paris. The edu-snobs and the know-it-alls will ruin this state. It makes me cry. This is worse than the pandemic mind-virus; it is watching the death of a state in (now) fast forward. My relief is knowing God is in control and will care for us no matter what.
Another example of why we need in person voter ID elections. Stay the course Jennβ¦ hold the line and know you are being prayed for!! Send up prayers for VA C&C Army!!! ππ
Thank you! We will continue to pray for our state and nation. We have voter ID here but in certain counties is appears to be lax. A friend of mine did poll work and she was floored at what was happening in Alexandria. Arlington, we've heard, is the same.
You are not voting your way out of this shit. It must run it's course. Just imagine the American Indian. Today's voting is the equivalent of the Indian's Ghost Dance.
It causes extreme anxiety because it most certainly feels like the Dems are going postal. Fairfax County is the most egregious county taxing people and the fees. And now it will mirror the same at the state level, only worse. Granted, they have to pass these things legislatively but at the helm is Darth Vader meets Voldemort and she has the full weight of disgruntled, useless Fed workers. They are like the teachers unions on steroids.
I run a meetup group in Eagle for neighbors to meet neighbors and every few weeks we meet at the State Street Saloon. This so infuriates the libs that they leave. Slowly but surely, I'm weeding them out!
Iβm in MO., too, Dr.Linda! My county and our sheriff is very conservative. I volunteer an election judge and havenβt observed any shenanigans in the 3 years Iβve been doing it.
Another noVA resident here and I feel your anxiety over this. Iβve never lived in California though. But we are plenty worried about this. But trying to keep my trust in God and know that often times people have to learn things the hard way. Just difficult when I have to experience the mass punishment along with them.
I've lived in both places. And Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. Seen it happen in all those amazing places. I'm really sorry for VA. Always knew it was possible. Horrible to see it happen. I'm in ID now and working to keep it real here. People do love their RINOS though, and just voting red without really vetting the person, so feels like an uphill battle.
What is so stupid is the Californians flee CA because of the policies that have screwed our state over, then they take their voting with them and create what they fled.
Headed your way from Washington. I will help also. Already following local government and will attend meetings and get involved once we are fully transitioned. Local local local
Jenn, you are not alone. Michigan did it in 2022. We βre-electedβ a governor this state could not stand after the pandemic lockdowns and her two henchwomen, the AG and SOS. They got 3 constitutional amendments on the ballot also. One was abortion up to birth, transgender mutilations with out parental notification or OK, abortions performed my non doctors and just about anywhere. And a voting rights amendment which had mail in voting, same day registration, extended voting days and extended counts. Not only were all three re-elected but all 3 ballot initiatives passed. The Michigan Legislature, both branches became Democrat controlled for the first time in 40 years. A raft of new bills were passed none good for the citizens. Itβs the same in Minnesota, Illinois, Nevada. Detroit decides the state or so they want us to believe.
Cheatingβ¦ how can it be stopped? Even in deep red North Alabama all kinds of strange things are happening in our electionsβ¦ Huntsville will probably be going purple very soon if itβs not all ready. Especially with all of the people coming in with Space Force, the FBI, and Eli Lilly.
How can normal people affect all of the cheating? What can we do? π‘
Connecticut is goneβ¦but maybe thereβs some hope -π€·ββοΈ democratic state senator McCory is being investigated for handing out $15 million in state funds to his best buddies - lots of fraud seems like β¦.CT is a one-party Democrat state and 45% of the state is Republican but weβve been gerrymandered out of any federal representation. If I didnβt love my house so much Iβd move out of state.
Yes, but no Dem with any βseniorityβ EVER gets prosecuted or jailed.
So the corruption continues & gets WORSE.
Thereβs some weird reason why the Admin absolutely will NOT prosecute. Donβt know what it is but they clearly will not act against Dem pols or bureaucrats.
I guess it depends on whether you're stretching your nerves--or brains--as on a rack, or wrecking them--as on the rocks.
Grok.comsez:
'Rack (verb/noun):
Originates from Middle Dutch recken ("to stretch").
As a verb, it means to strain, torture, torment, or stretch to the limit (literally from the medieval torture device called a rack, where victims were stretched painfully).
Common uses: rack up points, rack one's brain, racked with pain/guilt/doubt, nerve-racking.
'Wrack (verb/noun):
Originates from Old English/Middle English words related to wreck (shipwreck, ruin).
As a verb, it primarily means to wreck, destroy, ruin, or cause devastation (often nautical: wrack a ship on rocks).
As a noun: wreckage, seaweed cast ashore, or ruin (e.g., "wrack and ruin").'
Although commonly accepted as interchangeable, to my eye "wrack" suggests irreparable damage: wracked nerves ought to be "former nerves." Of course, I'm assuming the "rack treatment" didn't always resort in death ( easy for me to assume).
So sorry. We have had a similar experience escaping from CA to OR only to find ourselves in CA lite. But it appears to have it even worse. Prayers for our states.
Letβs hope Texas fights like a beast against it. Our son relocated there last year and heβs in the middle of a blue cesspool near Austin. I pray for his future. Texans! Hold on tight! Hold the line!
Juju, most of Texas is red, but there are blue parts of every big city, just like there are all across the country. Austin is definitely unique in Texas. Itβs really an old hippie city. Itβs fun to visit, great restaurants, incredible texas BBQ, but way too crunchy for me. But my early 40s niece lives there and loves it, but sheβs a moderate and not a progressive.
Isnβt that how Portland began? Look what it grew into. Same with some CA cities. The blue spreads like a virus when people let it with complacency and later find it too overwhelming to fight, like VA.
This is why We wonβt βfleeβ our CA state as much as we hate what its doing. Even states like FL could in theory flip back blue. You just never know. My husband keeps saying CA will
Californian (LA County) checking-in. My wife and I envision moving away someday, but don't know where. Perhaps a redder part of California. But we increasingly feel like we've experienced a lifetime's worth of living in a large dysfunctional alienating blue metro area. We hope to find a nice red rural area not too far from a nice red town in a nice red county surrounded by nice red counties in a red state (preferably surrounded by nice red states if such a place exists).
Ex San Diegan here, left S.D. to a small rural townβ¦felt like third class citizen! Horrible to nonexistent services (sheriff, fire, ambulance, reliable electricity, cable, internet, etc), fruits and vegetables rotten at the core due to long refrigerated hauls, expensive groceries due to gas costs in CA., higher gas costs at the one service station and only two restaurants in town and both expensive due to former stated costs. And donβt even think you will get decent medical, dental or eye care unless you are willing to drive a long way to another town. Leave CA. behind and go to a red stateβ¦we chose FL. and have not regretted it.
Thank you for your comment! I grew up in a rural area before moving to California long ago so am familiar with the cons of small town living. We're not looking to be totally of grid. My wife needs to be within x distance of a place like Target. I need to be within 2x distance. :-)
I would argue the majority of CA is and has always been red and conservative. It's the rampant election fraud and nonstop squawking of the captured media that makes it seem otherwise.
Bingo, GBA. Islam is not compatible with our Judeo-Christian founding and heritage. Learn how Islam is spread, simply look at Europe and Australia today.
You can vote your way into tyranny, you must fight your way to freedom.
If we get voter ID maybe but then illegals get DLs like its a credit card soβ¦.! Plus there are so many loony lefties who are literally crazy! I hope tho
We fled California in 2021. We didn't want to get the jab and we had many concerns about staying. We would love to go back some day. I don't want to risk it now. I hope California improves!
There is a movement for a New California. it would split it in very odd ways but essentially red splits from blue. However minus all their hype it doesnβt seem to be going anywhere. I had followed them for a year and never hear anything big although they hold weekly mtgs and supposedly go to DC.
I think Iβve followed New California since 2017(?) and they started off hot, then got bogged down (or bought off) along the way. That movement is going nowhere.
I admire your conviction to California, Lisa Ca. I'm a native SoCal, left to pursue my desired vocation many moons ago and probably won't move back. Loved the Mediterranean climate, love the ocean and the mountains with deserts beyond. Most my extended family has moved out, cost of living, radical politics, immigration changing the demographics.
I see a glimmer of hope in Steve Hilton as a Governor candidate and Mike Gates as AG candidate. Both these guys are realists and know they face a captured election system.
I appreciate that. Its less about CA conviction and more about how I would hate to move somewhere that turns blue in a few yrs like VA. But also all our fam here. Hard to leave!
I'm curious, if you'd like to respond, about your decision making process because I'm interested in sharpening my own. What research or information informed your move to Oregon to cause you to believe it was different or better than CA? Were you aware of its liberal policies but believe you might reach a devil's bargain to achieve your goals ? Did you follow friends? Oregon was invaded by Californians decades ago and the West side has been destroyed. Eastern Oregonians have been trying to join Idaho. Bend, a popular destination for most Californians flipped blue almost overnight. It was sharply divided into the "West side" (liberals) and the rest of Bend, then it finally surrendered to progressiveness, homelessness and all the other ills.
Yep! That Mail-in Ballot Voting scheme is a funny creature. Written by, and first Senator to be "elected" by, said procedure (gee, imagine that), Ron Wyden, stupendously, and quite vigorously, defends his fraudulent invention as if he were Dr. Frankenstein himself. And yes, unfortunately, it's "still alive!!!"
So, I can only suppose, Lisa, when making her escape from California to Oregon, was vastly unaware of Dr. Frankenstein's creation and still held hope closely to her chest while envisioning that "The People's" voices would be heard and "normalcy" would once again reign supreme throughout the State. NOPE!!! Hahaha, had you going there though for a second or two. But again, it will never happen as long as Mail-in voting remains. It's broke. And it must be fixed!
We paid $2.92 a gallon for Supreme at BJβs last week. We also have 1 million more registered Republican voters than we did before covid. Let me know if you want recommendations on nice areas. Weβd love to have you in Florida. OH, and our property taxes went DOWN this year. Good governance.
There was a determined effort to sign up Republicans to vote in the state of Florida. If everybody whoβs not happy in your state, went out one Saturday a month to help sign up new voters, voters that have moved and changed addresses, and any voters who may have changed parties; you could help turn the tide in your state. Strength in numbers!
Iβve also called business addresses that voters were registered to and verified if it was a residence or business. Registered voters can only register at residential addresses.
How cute to hear a child say βthatβs unfortunateβ. π It reminds me of my youngest who was so adept at picking out every three to four syllabic word I uttered and then correctly using it himself by the age of 4. He was so cute I can still hear his voice in my head βmohm, hereβs da pwoblem, thatβs just ridic-you-is. Hereβs da sitchuashunβ etc etc. Man I miss those days β€οΈβΊοΈ
Minnesota is a very sad situation because I have wonderful memories of driving through many of Minnesota's small towns with their beautiful Lake settings. We now find out that Minnesota is basically a criminal Enterprise, if you look at the activity of its leaders. And with the bogus vouching rule for elections, I now understand why Minnesota was the only state Ronald Reagan didn't win-- it was vote fraud.
It was very easy for them to get away with it when you consider Hubert Humphrey and Mondale. I do not think we have had a real fair election in decades. I love Minnesota for the scenery and I love winter but I detest the politics as do most of my friends and we are all lifelong residents.
I am right there with you. I left NY state because the fascist gov. Hochul was just destroying the state, taxes were soaring upwards with no end in sight. The covid response was draconian, to say the least. Now I see it all repeating here in VA. In NY, NYC controlled the state and here, it's the North with it's dense population of DC employees and deranged leftists that control the rest of the state. I wish Winsome Sears and the VA GOP had done a little better job of campaigning and pointing out that Spam was a CIA employee. She could turn out to be worse than Hochul if that's possible. I guess I didn't move far south enough.
We left NYS (Binghamton) in 2013 for Fort Myers. I am so so glad we made the move. I still have a lot of family in upstate NY and just shake my head at the shenanigans that have and are occurring in NY.
A dear friend of mine just moved to VA to care for a family member who is elderly and declining. I could hear the fear and dismay in her voice when we spoke the other day. Know you have prayers being given for all of you in VA.
Twenty-something years ago, I noticed that the Muslims were emigrating to just about every country in the world. Interestingly enough, they were getting involved in politics....starting small, at the city level. Twenty-something years later, the world is a much more Muslim-centered world.....certainly not for the betterment of the "infidels" since it's proven they DO NOT assimilate. I sincerely DO NOT understand how a Muslim politician can take an oath to uphold the US Constitution when they are fundamentally opposed to everything it stands for. Same with the Soros-funded far left.
And take the oath of office on a Koran, Austin. Deception is a tenant of Islam, and the western world is their new playground. Never has a war been so easy to win.
A devout Muslim is a Muslim above all else, above country and politics. Islam comes first. And lying for the sake of Islam is ok to them. I would encourage everyone to look up some of the interviews with Raymond Ibrahim. He explains the Muslim mindset very clearly.
David Wilkerson had a vision in 1973. Six words that God told him to tell us to always remember when times get sick-hard is "God has everything under control." Our job is to pray like we are most favored children of our Father, with authority and power and dominion over the dark forces. It is the only way we win. The church has buried this authority we have in Christ and we need to take it back and use it to fight. We can't fight a spiritual battle in the natural. Good vs. evil is at play and it is everywhere. Do not be discouraged! Fight fight fight!!
agree. sad and terrifying what legislation is in the works. seriously thinking about leaving what i thought would morph into a moderate, right leaning state, especially after seeing what comes from minnesota and california-esqe debacles.
all good conservative people can do is vote with their feet and move. if they all did, how much less tax revenue in those states and would send a message. Call it The Great Conservative Migration of 2026. Let the left blow up on their own fetid petard.
NO! all good conservative people should stay and FIGHT back. Get involved in your local school boards, local elections, just the way those who oppose us are doing
NM is controlled by Albuquerque and Las Cruces. Oh yeah and by Northern NM which is Indians and old time Mexican that have been on the government teat for generations. SE NM has all the oil which supplies there free government teat milk.
I live in south east PA and I have been to Pastor Gary Hamrick church in Virginia numerous times. He pastors Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg VA. He is great Bible Teacher/Preacherβ¦this man is one of the most balanced and thorough teachers of the Bible I have ever heard. ( Iβm in my 70βs and heard a lot of pastors throughout my years). I watch him online and highly recommend him. Also, he is very knowledgeable about politics and the effects it has on the church and the works we live in todayβ¦and he also has a great sense of humor. ππ»
As the crow flys, would probably not be too uncomfortable of a drive but the traffic lights are 4-6 minutes long in some places and then one has to get through the traffic (and Maryland drivers π I kidβ¦kinda). But we have an amazing pastor and church so for this, we are blessed. I have heard that Leesburg pastor is amazing.
I live in south east PA and I have been to Pastor Gary Hamrick church in Virginia numerous times. He pastors Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg VA. He is great Bible Teacher/Preacherβ¦this man is one of the most balanced and thorough teachers of the Bible I have ever heard. ( Iβm in my 70βs and heard a lot of pastors throughout my years). I watch him online and highly recommend him. Also, he is very knowledgeable about politics and the effects it has on the church and the works we live in todayβ¦and he also has a great sense of humor. ππ»
Prayers and traveling mercies both ways! May the good, good Lord grant you His peace that is beyond understanding and His never ending grace that exceeds your imagination! May His healing hands guide the doctors and grant you the ability to actually feel His supernatural power working in you!
"At this point, it is an open question whether better new reporting is produced by corporate media reporters or blind squirrels." I think the squirrels definitely win.
This is why I read Coffee & Covid! So I actually get news....
I miss S&H Green Stamps. As a teen, I was in charge of the family Green Stamps & filling the books. I traded with friends/parents for theirs and at one point had over 100 full books! That was a shopping trip for the ages!
My very first real fishing rod came from Top Value. That kit, if you can find it, which is obviously antique now, as I am,is worth 100 times what it was in 1965?
Hahaha no it was a sweet baby doll with a pink bow. Her body was pink checked fabric with matching skirt. She lasted until just a few years ago with my grandkids playing with her. Somehow i never got new barbies. I always had madge and the not so pretty ones. Skipper and her brother. But i dis get a cool diane carol βnurseβ barbie. So many hours playing with those.
01/22/26: Good Lord, that is true indeed. I thought I would have to continue looking for actual journalism in books published 80 years agoβ¦
Don Surber: βAfter days of saying Trump shouldnβt take Greenland by force, the disloyal opposition switched β¦β
βOver on Fox[-Pravda] [β] News [β], Byron York and Bret Baierβ started kissing ass faster than they did in 2023 when they suddenly realized that a shallow, IQ-emaciated former Carolina governor (Fox-News Corp.βs stooge) wasnβt going to make in 2024:
Got my blue lives matters flags up but I always doβ¦ my stepson is my favorite blue life always and forever. Might be time to take the grands over again to thank our local law enforcement for all the protection they provide us. Havenβt done that in awhile! I think we will craft some thank you cards this weekend. Fabulous I was looking for a fun activity! Teaching gratitude one little at a time!
We had an FB organized anti-protest to the ICE protest here on Saturday. Lots of cars drove by them with ICE BABY ICE blaring out the windows. lol. Made my day! Same people all the time.. lots of old white women. While I am approaching that age Iβll never understand them. My generation of white women must be why Iβve always liked men much better. π
yep, amazing how many times I go to get-togethers, and even when the women don't know each other, they always end up grouping themselves like a bunch of hens. And I'm always over by the men, because they're much more interesting.
Men are much easier to live with than women! One semester in college, I shared a 2-bedroom apartment with 3 other girls. It was a disaster. We all ended up barely speaking to one another.
Speaking of cars and (older) white women. I will never accept a Robot car. As long as there are winding, country roads, I will continue driving my 10 year old MNI.
One more thing. I find it surprising that the powers that be havenβt figured out Pres. Trumpβs MOD-yet. Duh!
I'm 76 and I'm so incredibly disgusted so many of women in my age group. I live in a Northern California foothills area that attracts a lot of retirement age folks, and while it wasn't like this when I moved here in 1989, far too many uber liberal San Francisco and L.A. people retired here so there are many more crazy libs than before. In the recent No Kings protest I was shocked to see most of the protesters were old folks, some with walkers even! Purple hair, fat, stupid looking, and they sound like shrill idiots. I don't identify with any of them in the least and find them embarrassing. Perhaps they are holdovers from the 1960's protest days and clearly haven't learned a thing since then. Like you, I have always preferred men as friends, bosses, co-workers and this has been true my whole life. When I was a young college student, I could barely tolerate the women's libbers that were emerging at that time. I immediately perceived them as the phonies they are and didn't want to get within ten feet of them.
There was a protest in my town on the one year anniversary of Trumpβs inauguration by the usual useful idiots. A variety of signs from their previous protests: we support government workers (USFS), scientists save lives (Rocky Mountain Lab), no Kings, and the latest about ICE. π€¦π»ββοΈ
I would like to create an app that runs 24x7 hitting randomly picked websites and articles and shopping all over the Internet so the cookies and traffic Google and the other spies collect is rally nothing but noise.
Then, add location spoofing via fake GPS data and 25 million of us could destroy the value of the spy apps.
We need to also do this to the anti-ice protester websites just like the blue lives matter guys and gals. Calling in fake tips would be absolutely hilariousβ¦ π
Bessent owned Newsom. Trump toyed with msm and panicans again. They still havenβt figured out his negotiating pattern after a decade. All they need to do is read Art of the Deal. He has also perfected the art of the troll: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-the-art-of-the-troll
The outrage loving protesters cannot read books, signs, laws, social cues, or the room π
It doesnβt take much to confuse them because they are perpetually confused and intellectually exploited by their employers. Imagine being that incapacitated and easily bamboozled.
If Trump doesnβt have a group of Leakers whispering fake news to the Fake News Media, he should! Give them the olβ razzle dazzle with stories just as fake as they publish! Theyβll never know who to trust π€‘
I am not ignorant and suggest you take a peek in a mirror on that front. I have no doubt that some innocent lives have been lost in Gaza. Some occasioned by Usrael but some directly at the hands of the terrorist group Hamas and all indirectly. I have no idea how many lives, innocent or otherwise, have been lost and neither do you. I do know that the likelihood of that increases when a terrorist "army" sees fit to imbed itself in a civilian population. IMO Israel has shown remarkable restraint. Lastly it is disingenuous - very, very, very disingenuous - to shriek and wail about genocide when population numbers remain remarkably consistent.
You are clueless. Utterly, completely and totally clueless. All you are doing is parroting your preferred sources. Polly need a cracker? You do not see your own blindness. Nor can you acknowledge that you do not know what is going on over there. Which means that is likely true of everything. Yet you call me dumb. You are a walking, talking, typing red flag.
They should have killed them all. That would insure another October 7 never happens again. But people like you and your misplaced empathy prevent Israel from doing what needs to be done.
The mindless Anti-ICE freakshows were at it again. Bovino and crew were refused service at a Speedway Convenience Store in Minneapolis yesterday. That's fine. What's good for the goose...If this is the way the game is going to be played by the retards then the retards shouldn't get their panties in a twist and initiate a federal case because a couple of pastry shop owners, who just happen to be Christian, refuse to create a cake for Bob and Raoul's wedding. "Gay cake is not on the menu, ladies." Refusal of service cuts both ways, and since throwing food and spitting on agents is wholly permissible I propose - no pun intended - to respond in kind. "Yes, we shall pelt them with cooked rice, 3 day old tarts and stale churros. Feel our wrath!" I suspect Speedway - owned by 7-11 - will be receiving some interesting calls and emails.
ICE, I've got 4 words for you: "Water cannons in January." You may now use the restroom in peace....grab a coffee when you're done.
Incidentally, I had no idea that I was sitting on a potential gold mine with the: "No, shirt, no shoes, no service" restaurant and retail store mantra when I was growing up. Ah, the innocence of uncorrupted youth.
Sue their asses- they bankrupted Christians because they couldnβt make them bake the cake or provide whatever service they really DIDNT want from whatever company- they just wanted trouble.
If I had been the cake shop I would have baked them the cake, but done a lousy job. I'd have been unsteady with the frosting, and not gotten the ingredients just right. Maybe put in half the sugar called for, etc.
Cut off ALL federal funding and sit back and watch the fireworks. When the state is no longer able to meet its financial obligations maybe the sparks will fly!
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant not ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the sanme, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite alot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another.
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it. βUnknown
Although I realize that this is a humorous post, a lot of these questions could be answered if English teachers knew and taught at least a little about the history of the English language and etymology. It always bugs me when people, especially teachers, answer questions about why the language is a certain way, with something along the lines of βEnglish is just weird.β No, not really. There are lots of very common and normal linguistic mechanisms in play, but few people ever learn about them so kids in school just think grammar is βdumbβ and spelling βmakes no sense.β
Absolutely. I was one of those 'weird kids' who has always been fascinated by root words. Imagine a 14 yr old checking out huge library dictionaries and books on Latin words. LOL!! The 15 yr summer was for works of William Shakespeare.
Currently studying Spanish (again). Your treatise on the English language captures very well my frequent thoughts as I re-learn the grammar rules for everyday conversation.
" If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?" I'd call that VERY ODD cuz I'm known to hoard some "things" (I'd call them treasures, but my hubby would not agree) π
Good Morning C&C. Question: why do we continue to call corporate media "media"? They are neither stupid, clueless, nor ignorant. Nor do they deliver objective "news". They are collectively the deep state Ministry of Propaganda. Oompa Goebbels would be proud. Why can't we begin calling them what they are: Ministry of Propaganda.
We changed the definition of βvaccineβ during the pandemicβ¦maybe we should just change the definitionβ¦
Mainstream media: Where objectivity goes to die, bias gets a byline, every headline has a side hustle, and every storyline gets fact-checked by itself.
FWIW, I call them the Malicious Satanic Media. Kind of a mouthful, but when I say it out loud publicly, I can tell it gets some peoples' gears turning.
I thought about using 10 Spies (Numbers 13-14) but figured that would go over too many heads since most people fall alseep in the book of Numbers.
@JeffChilders - I would love for you to implement Bill Campbell's Media=MoP (Ministry of Propaganda). No longer "Main Stream Media" - forever more to be MoP!
My husband is 82 yr old retired law enforcement and a veteran. He thought post for Blue Lives Matter must be true. It was great post and he'd love to join in.
I read Steve Kirschβs post on the CHD/AAP lawsuit yesterday and it sounds explosive π₯π₯π₯ I hope this is the beginning of the end of these tyrannical βboardsβ and βassociationsβ!!
I did too! Fantastic. The saddest part of his SS was hearing a second set ot twins just passed found in their beds after receiving 3 jabs at 9am and at 7am the next day they were gone. This is pure child sacrifice and it has to be ended at any and all costs.
Yes, I didnβt know about that until I read Jeffβs round up today and I agree that having both of these lawsuits going on at once is very promising!!
I think he has the Texas AGs office well staffed. I think he will make an excellent Senator. I also thought he would have made an excellent US Atoorney General. Much better than Bondi IMO.
I hope they have top tier lawyers. I watch The Highwire, and Del Bigtree often goes on about how important it is to have the best lawyers working on the important cases, because messing up an important case will have consequences that can't be undone.
Jeff here talks about it too, as well as the importance of starting with smaller adversaries and building precedent to go against the well connected and wealthy targets.
HHS has pulled the recommendation for most people under 65. As we often say about Mr. Trump, let RFK Jr work.
RFK Jr has stated that he CANNOT just change some of the policies. He has to wait until some organization sues them for information or for a change in policy.
So sometimes you will hear a headline about a lawsuit against HHS framed in a way that sounds like HHS is a traitor to MAHA. But no, that's the way it has to work, and RFK wants those lawsuits.
The approval process and the EUA being granted was so corrupt, it could be revoked NOW.
The millions of dead from the Covid jabs is also reason enough to suspend all mRNA jabs until REAL safety studies can be done.
So, no, that is NOT the way it has to work... remember a previous flu jab, Swine flu or some similar... killed a small number and was quickly yanked off the market...
ββthe reason it came as surprising news to most people, is because the blind squirrels impersonating reporters at our corporate media platforms canβt spend ten seconds on Google learning the history, in order to mention it in any of their ten thousand articles about Trump βbullyingβ Denmark.β
That, and the fact that the so-called βhistory teachersβ prefer to whine about white supremacy than actually teach history π
All of this βvaccineβ news makes me want to cryβ¦tears of joy. The PEOPLE taking control and holding the villains accountable.
And how I hope Blue Lives Matter WAS involved in the ICE decoy opsβ¦how do I get in on THAT action???
Great news all aroundβ¦and the gullibility of the press (and its sheeple followers) never ceases to amaze me. We saw it. We ALL saw it. But THEY saw an impending invasionβ¦the end of the world! They canβt remove their blinders because they donβt even know theyβre wearing themβ¦
" AAP guidance βwhich does not generally recognize family history of vaccine reactions.β" Oh god... This is called "genetic diversity" it's a real thing. Yes, injuries run in families and in ethnic groups.
I have mentioned I was damaged at an early age, one of my sisters was too, not as bad, but noticeably. Yes, genetics are a thing in medicine.
Especially since they keep harping on family history for pretty much everything else! Even when it doesnβt necessarily make sense. I have a friend who is terrified of getting colon cancer because of her family history (her father had it and died from it) but he was a smoker and overweight and probably had other lifestyle issues that contributed greatly. She has none of those and yet her doctors tell her she needs regular colonoscopies because of her family historyβ¦
Another set of twins found dead in their cribs after getting 3 jabs at once. Jabs at 9am and found dead 7am the next morning. This is pure murder and has got to end. The AAP is demonic and I am convinced part of a child sacrifice cult.
I wish someone would go after the hospitals for still βmandatingβ the flu shot for employment. One of my coworkers had to get a flu shot by the end of this month or face disciplinary action, potentially termination. She did not fill out an exemption in the fall soβ¦..now essentially forced into getting one. Horrible!! Also, if you do receive an exemption they expect you to wear a mask during the flu season!!!! π€§π€§ They obviously believe that masks work!!!! Where is the science??
A friend's husband had a double lung transplant in Nov..When he was discharged in Jan., he was told he needs to wear a mask in public spaces. If at a restaurant, he can take it off when seated. This was advised by Cleveland Clinic transplant clinic.
Wonder if he was forced to get the covid jab to receive the transplant. hospitals were not allowing xplants unless you took the jab. I hope he does well and is with us for decades!
There is one mask, I would have to look up now, we had to wear,both my wife and I, when she had a stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma. It looks like a duck bill, and does offer viral protection. Itβs required when youβre in the area of moffitt where these transplants take place. And she had to wear it outside the home for a few months after her transplant. But there is one, and it sure as hell isnβt an n95, a bra cup, or a tee shirt.
I had to take my mom to urgent care last week. First question from PA was βHave you had the Covid or flu vaccines?β Mom said no, I donβt take vaccines.β PA said, βGood for you. Stay strong!β
FYI inside observation. Local medical complex has staff mask mandate with multiple staff emails to the effect. Yet, I witnessed bare faces in a variety of settings, with no admonishment suffered from colleagues nor patients.
It is increasingly common for new parents to be questioning vaccine safety, even in the face of repeated obtuse nurse/doctor insistence. ("mothers know best, but, really, are you ready for the shots now? Are you ready now? I'll just bring them now. So, we can bring them now...." ).
NO is a good word. I can sympathize with the usage of "forced" under the subtext of employment, but more is expected of us now. We can expect of ourselves to know our NOs well and enunciate clearly. And still, even the Bartleby the Scrivener NO can often be sufficient and get the job done: "I prefer not to..." and simply not doing without direct confrontation. It takes a lot of work to force someone, especially if the one tasked with forcing doesn't really want to force.
I had a follow up appt for my broken ribs today, and yesterday they (back room office busy bodies) called and canceled saying βI donβt know who scheduled you but Dr so-and-so doesnβt treat broken ribs anymore, we are canceling your appointment.β π³ Iβve been waiting three weeks! And Iβm having some significant increase in discomfort. I was so angry that they waited until the day before, punishing me rather than chastising their scheduler but honoring my appt, and causing me to lose three weeks of being able to find someone else. I was lying in bed giving them a chew-out in my mind in several different ways when I remembered that last month when they xrayed my rib cage all the ladies behind the desk were in masks. ALL of them. Lunatics.
Maybe this is a good thing that I peel away from their clinic. But I really like the actual doctors there. They donβt wear masks and are some of the best Orthopaedics. Now I have to figure out where to go for follow up! Most places make you wait several months unless youβre already an established patient. Grrrr
I really really hate our medical institutions today.
I Broke a rib three weeks ago coughing myself sillyβ¦ flu, then viral pneumonia kind of does that, unfortunatelyβ¦ Iβm sorry you are in pain. π’ At this point, Iβm not really sure what theyβre going to be able to do for you if itβs just broken ribsβ¦ is anything else going on that they can help with? Otherwise, doctors are practically useless. Sometimes itβs just taking time to healβ¦ ππ½ππ½ππ½
They canβt do anything for it I know, but Iβd feel better having regular check ins to make sure something worse isnβt going unnoticed. I have kept myself basically in bed for three weeks now, occasionally sitting up on the couch for a change of sanity. Babying myself. But itβs hurting worse. This whole week Iβve had a pain that felt like someone was slicing me with a razor just under my skin above the two ribs with the slightest movements and turns. Sleeping hurts and wakes me up as lying on either side makes it hurt, obviously I canβt lay long on the broken side, but then the weight of my breast laying over the broken side when I turn to the unbroken side is excruciating too. I assume a man could have that same problem if they have muscle in their chest adding that weight. I try to remain flat on my back but thatβs hard because Iβm not a natural back sleeper.
Iβm lying here replying having been awake for 48 hours now as I couldnβt sleep last night. I would have appreciated a second round of X-rays to compare with the first and check progress. Thatβs what they did with the last rib I broke last year. It helped to see the healing and how good the bone was regrowing over it since I have advanced osteo. It helped me get through the pain seeing all was progressing as it should. I hate not knowing if what Iβm feeling is ok, not being able to have monitoring appts. So stupid that they stopped treating fractured ribs. When you have this kind of pain, piece of mind makes a huuuuge difference to our ability to get through it.
Does splinting help at all? You could always rub the area with DMSO, let it dry then get a menthol patch and splint it with an ace wrap to kind of support it?? IDKβ¦ π’ππ½
fell on the ice on a stoop outside. My feet slipped behind me so my chest landed smack dab solid on the stoop. Iβm 5β2β so that was about a 5β straight shot fall.
I do have some DMSO cream with that menthol effect to it. I bought it for itching on my arms not realizing it was like a Ben Gay type thingy so couldnβt use it for my itching. Thanks for the reminder! Iβm going to try that today.
A lot of my pain has been in my back as wellβ¦ I think once everything is healed Iβm going to the chiropractor! Iβm probably all out of whack! π«€
I canβt use a chiropractor because I have severe advanced osteoporosis. My T-scores are what is commonly found in those 20-30 years older than me. It was caused by too many years taking omeprazole.
I started using homeopathic remedies last year and they are amazing! You can search Joette Calabrese on the internet she has articles on fractures which will give you a quick answer to remedies that will help with the pain and healing. On Substack, Homepathy Rising is an awesome resource to learn about homeopathy. Praying for a rapid recovery!
If I had ONE wish it would be that Trump comes clean and quits supporting the Bio-weapon Death Shot! That fact that he refuses to call the pseudo-"vaccine" what it is, a weapon of mass destruction employed for the purpose of depopulation, makes me question everything else he does as possibly misleading and deceptive. I realize this is an inconvenient truth but how can I trust someone who supports, even implicitly, mass murder and genocide?
Regarding your Virginia segment in yesterday's post; we are absolutely sick about this whole thing. Our family escaped California seven years ago and by two years in to living here I began to fret about Virginia turning into CA. And, so, it has begun. Once again three counties control the entire state with diametrically different goals from RoVA. Living in NoVa, it feels like we live in Paris. The edu-snobs and the know-it-alls will ruin this state. It makes me cry. This is worse than the pandemic mind-virus; it is watching the death of a state in (now) fast forward. My relief is knowing God is in control and will care for us no matter what.
Another example of why we need in person voter ID elections. Stay the course Jennβ¦ hold the line and know you are being prayed for!! Send up prayers for VA C&C Army!!! ππ
Thank you! We will continue to pray for our state and nation. We have voter ID here but in certain counties is appears to be lax. A friend of mine did poll work and she was floored at what was happening in Alexandria. Arlington, we've heard, is the same.
State GOP needs to coordinate Poll WATCHERS (not workers) & attorneys to oversee elections. FL does this quite well!
You are not voting your way out of this shit. It must run it's course. Just imagine the American Indian. Today's voting is the equivalent of the Indian's Ghost Dance.
I am so sorry to hear this. I have been thinking about the VA summary quite a bit. Itβs rather nerve racking, very nerve racking
It causes extreme anxiety because it most certainly feels like the Dems are going postal. Fairfax County is the most egregious county taxing people and the fees. And now it will mirror the same at the state level, only worse. Granted, they have to pass these things legislatively but at the helm is Darth Vader meets Voldemort and she has the full weight of disgruntled, useless Fed workers. They are like the teachers unions on steroids.
I get it. I left CA 35 years ago (born & raised Californian). I am ever watchful here in Missouri.
I feel your stress / distress. I am sorry.
Same. Left Cali 26 years ago for Idaho which has been invaded by libs. Not changing as quickly but it IS changing
Idaho here. Boise is getting BAD. I am in SW Idaho off 95 and it is God's country here. I love it.
See my strategy above.
I run a meetup group in Eagle for neighbors to meet neighbors and every few weeks we meet at the State Street Saloon. This so infuriates the libs that they leave. Slowly but surely, I'm weeding them out!
Great! I love it. And they hate State Street Saloon!
Is that the state saloon that keep making the news π canβt wait to get there
Where can I find when you meet? Would love to join sometime if possible.
* i love in Meridian
Yikes! I hope to help the red stay red
thank you.
That's going to require us to stay locked and loaded.
Iβm in MO., too, Dr.Linda! My county and our sheriff is very conservative. I volunteer an election judge and havenβt observed any shenanigans in the 3 years Iβve been doing it.
I am hoping to be an election judge
They always need more people! Call your county clerk!
Another noVA resident here and I feel your anxiety over this. Iβve never lived in California though. But we are plenty worried about this. But trying to keep my trust in God and know that often times people have to learn things the hard way. Just difficult when I have to experience the mass punishment along with them.
Grew up in NJ - moved to VA 32 yrs agoβ¦have seen the creeping change. π
NJ is just as bad with white Kamala flying her helicopter
Something has to be done about ballot harvesting.
The Dems run it well.
I've lived in both places. And Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. Seen it happen in all those amazing places. I'm really sorry for VA. Always knew it was possible. Horrible to see it happen. I'm in ID now and working to keep it real here. People do love their RINOS though, and just voting red without really vetting the person, so feels like an uphill battle.
Colorado here. I can confirm that California has successfully exported its βvaluesβ here. Sad.
What is so stupid is the Californians flee CA because of the policies that have screwed our state over, then they take their voting with them and create what they fled.
Always in search of a new host.
Sad.
Headed your way from Washington. I will help also. Already following local government and will attend meetings and get involved once we are fully transitioned. Local local local
Reach out when you make it. Quite a few good active groups. Some yo stay away from too though.
Hey! Thanks
Jenn, you are not alone. Michigan did it in 2022. We βre-electedβ a governor this state could not stand after the pandemic lockdowns and her two henchwomen, the AG and SOS. They got 3 constitutional amendments on the ballot also. One was abortion up to birth, transgender mutilations with out parental notification or OK, abortions performed my non doctors and just about anywhere. And a voting rights amendment which had mail in voting, same day registration, extended voting days and extended counts. Not only were all three re-elected but all 3 ballot initiatives passed. The Michigan Legislature, both branches became Democrat controlled for the first time in 40 years. A raft of new bills were passed none good for the citizens. Itβs the same in Minnesota, Illinois, Nevada. Detroit decides the state or so they want us to believe.
Cheatingβ¦ how can it be stopped? Even in deep red North Alabama all kinds of strange things are happening in our electionsβ¦ Huntsville will probably be going purple very soon if itβs not all ready. Especially with all of the people coming in with Space Force, the FBI, and Eli Lilly.
How can normal people affect all of the cheating? What can we do? π‘
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This dread disease felt like it was being beaten back but I guess only at the national level.
Connecticut is goneβ¦but maybe thereβs some hope -π€·ββοΈ democratic state senator McCory is being investigated for handing out $15 million in state funds to his best buddies - lots of fraud seems like β¦.CT is a one-party Democrat state and 45% of the state is Republican but weβve been gerrymandered out of any federal representation. If I didnβt love my house so much Iβd move out of state.
Yes, but no Dem with any βseniorityβ EVER gets prosecuted or jailed.
So the corruption continues & gets WORSE.
Thereβs some weird reason why the Admin absolutely will NOT prosecute. Donβt know what it is but they clearly will not act against Dem pols or bureaucrats.
Sounds like CA.
... nerve wracking? π€
Webster Dictionary
nerve-racking
adjective
nerve-rackΒ·βing ΛnΙrv-Λra-kiΕ
variants or nerve-wracking
Synonyms of nerve-racking
: extremely trying on the nerves
a nerve-racking ordeal
The job interview was a nerve-racking experience.
Potatoes patatoes. Both are correct.
I guess it depends on whether you're stretching your nerves--or brains--as on a rack, or wrecking them--as on the rocks.
Grok.comsez:
'Rack (verb/noun):
Originates from Middle Dutch recken ("to stretch").
As a verb, it means to strain, torture, torment, or stretch to the limit (literally from the medieval torture device called a rack, where victims were stretched painfully).
Common uses: rack up points, rack one's brain, racked with pain/guilt/doubt, nerve-racking.
'Wrack (verb/noun):
Originates from Old English/Middle English words related to wreck (shipwreck, ruin).
As a verb, it primarily means to wreck, destroy, ruin, or cause devastation (often nautical: wrack a ship on rocks).
As a noun: wreckage, seaweed cast ashore, or ruin (e.g., "wrack and ruin").'
Although commonly accepted as interchangeable, to my eye "wrack" suggests irreparable damage: wracked nerves ought to be "former nerves." Of course, I'm assuming the "rack treatment" didn't always resort in death ( easy for me to assume).
On the worst days, I've had to wreck my racked nerves on the rocks of a margarita.
FINALLY, a common-sensiker weighs in...
Okay, you can be right. : )
Tell you what, I'll be Wilbur.
You be Orville.
And John can just be John.
So sorry. We have had a similar experience escaping from CA to OR only to find ourselves in CA lite. But it appears to have it even worse. Prayers for our states.
Letβs hope Texas fights like a beast against it. Our son relocated there last year and heβs in the middle of a blue cesspool near Austin. I pray for his future. Texans! Hold on tight! Hold the line!
Juju, most of Texas is red, but there are blue parts of every big city, just like there are all across the country. Austin is definitely unique in Texas. Itβs really an old hippie city. Itβs fun to visit, great restaurants, incredible texas BBQ, but way too crunchy for me. But my early 40s niece lives there and loves it, but sheβs a moderate and not a progressive.
Isnβt that how Portland began? Look what it grew into. Same with some CA cities. The blue spreads like a virus when people let it with complacency and later find it too overwhelming to fight, like VA.
The traffic is horrendous in Austin! Dallas and Houston too! I donβt see the appeal of any of those cities!
Whenever we secede we're going to have to exorcise Austin.
This is why We wonβt βfleeβ our CA state as much as we hate what its doing. Even states like FL could in theory flip back blue. You just never know. My husband keeps saying CA will
flip red and I say when pigs fly! π€£
I feel for all of you who moved families!!
Californian (LA County) checking-in. My wife and I envision moving away someday, but don't know where. Perhaps a redder part of California. But we increasingly feel like we've experienced a lifetime's worth of living in a large dysfunctional alienating blue metro area. We hope to find a nice red rural area not too far from a nice red town in a nice red county surrounded by nice red counties in a red state (preferably surrounded by nice red states if such a place exists).
Ex San Diegan here, left S.D. to a small rural townβ¦felt like third class citizen! Horrible to nonexistent services (sheriff, fire, ambulance, reliable electricity, cable, internet, etc), fruits and vegetables rotten at the core due to long refrigerated hauls, expensive groceries due to gas costs in CA., higher gas costs at the one service station and only two restaurants in town and both expensive due to former stated costs. And donβt even think you will get decent medical, dental or eye care unless you are willing to drive a long way to another town. Leave CA. behind and go to a red stateβ¦we chose FL. and have not regretted it.
San Diego/Orange County was the longest conservative holdout in Southern California. Itβs a damn shame it finally fell.
Thank you for your comment! I grew up in a rural area before moving to California long ago so am familiar with the cons of small town living. We're not looking to be totally of grid. My wife needs to be within x distance of a place like Target. I need to be within 2x distance. :-)
I would argue the majority of CA is and has always been red and conservative. It's the rampant election fraud and nonstop squawking of the captured media that makes it seem otherwise.
Large cities all seem to go blue and then they rule the state.
So very very true. And in areas outside CA too. Even Dallas is going more blue.
And Muslimβ¦
Bingo, GBA. Islam is not compatible with our Judeo-Christian founding and heritage. Learn how Islam is spread, simply look at Europe and Australia today.
You can vote your way into tyranny, you must fight your way to freedom.
In my opinion voting machines have to go! Back to paper ballots.
Californian here, I like your husbandβs optimism! ππ
If we get voter ID maybe but then illegals get DLs like its a credit card soβ¦.! Plus there are so many loony lefties who are literally crazy! I hope tho
Literally !!
We fled California in 2021. We didn't want to get the jab and we had many concerns about staying. We would love to go back some day. I don't want to risk it now. I hope California improves!
California needs to be split into two states. Either north and south, or it should be coastal versus inland.
Both
There is a movement for a New California. it would split it in very odd ways but essentially red splits from blue. However minus all their hype it doesnβt seem to be going anywhere. I had followed them for a year and never hear anything big although they hold weekly mtgs and supposedly go to DC.
I think Iβve followed New California since 2017(?) and they started off hot, then got bogged down (or bought off) along the way. That movement is going nowhere.
Exactly. Why I bailed out. I was like what are you guys doing, nothing?!!!
I admire your conviction to California, Lisa Ca. I'm a native SoCal, left to pursue my desired vocation many moons ago and probably won't move back. Loved the Mediterranean climate, love the ocean and the mountains with deserts beyond. Most my extended family has moved out, cost of living, radical politics, immigration changing the demographics.
I see a glimmer of hope in Steve Hilton as a Governor candidate and Mike Gates as AG candidate. Both these guys are realists and know they face a captured election system.
Tune in to Jack Hibbs, Come Back california: https://calvarycch.org/comeback-california-with-steve-hilton-and-michael-gates/
I appreciate that. Its less about CA conviction and more about how I would hate to move somewhere that turns blue in a few yrs like VA. But also all our fam here. Hard to leave!
I'm curious, if you'd like to respond, about your decision making process because I'm interested in sharpening my own. What research or information informed your move to Oregon to cause you to believe it was different or better than CA? Were you aware of its liberal policies but believe you might reach a devil's bargain to achieve your goals ? Did you follow friends? Oregon was invaded by Californians decades ago and the West side has been destroyed. Eastern Oregonians have been trying to join Idaho. Bend, a popular destination for most Californians flipped blue almost overnight. It was sharply divided into the "West side" (liberals) and the rest of Bend, then it finally surrendered to progressiveness, homelessness and all the other ills.
Yep! That Mail-in Ballot Voting scheme is a funny creature. Written by, and first Senator to be "elected" by, said procedure (gee, imagine that), Ron Wyden, stupendously, and quite vigorously, defends his fraudulent invention as if he were Dr. Frankenstein himself. And yes, unfortunately, it's "still alive!!!"
So, I can only suppose, Lisa, when making her escape from California to Oregon, was vastly unaware of Dr. Frankenstein's creation and still held hope closely to her chest while envisioning that "The People's" voices would be heard and "normalcy" would once again reign supreme throughout the State. NOPE!!! Hahaha, had you going there though for a second or two. But again, it will never happen as long as Mail-in voting remains. It's broke. And it must be fixed!
You have it. Sorry for typo
Instead of going N you should have went NE (Idaho). I left for Utah 5 years ago. Far from perfect but better than Oregon or Washington
We have the same issues in Minnesota.
Same in Michigan. π THE witch just upped our gas tax, so weβre not seeing the lower gas prices other states are enjoying. Oh, and our roads SUCK!
We paid $2.92 a gallon for Supreme at BJβs last week. We also have 1 million more registered Republican voters than we did before covid. Let me know if you want recommendations on nice areas. Weβd love to have you in Florida. OH, and our property taxes went DOWN this year. Good governance.
There was a determined effort to sign up Republicans to vote in the state of Florida. If everybody whoβs not happy in your state, went out one Saturday a month to help sign up new voters, voters that have moved and changed addresses, and any voters who may have changed parties; you could help turn the tide in your state. Strength in numbers!
Absolutely, Cheryl!!! Great idea. Check out True the Vote also as they can use workers no matter where you live to help in that effort.
Iβve also called business addresses that voters were registered to and verified if it was a residence or business. Registered voters can only register at residential addresses.
I also have registered voters at gun shows & other locations.
True The Vote, now veterans at election integrity. Fighting the good fight from the beginning.
Give this young man a visit https://handcountroadshow.org/
Brilliant, honest, patriotic, not self serving. Check his information, send him some help if you feel led.
My daughter doesn't allow her children to say "sucks." They MUST substitute "unfortunate" for "sucks"......which I think is unfortunate!
How cute to hear a child say βthatβs unfortunateβ. π It reminds me of my youngest who was so adept at picking out every three to four syllabic word I uttered and then correctly using it himself by the age of 4. He was so cute I can still hear his voice in my head βmohm, hereβs da pwoblem, thatβs just ridic-you-is. Hereβs da sitchuashunβ etc etc. Man I miss those days β€οΈβΊοΈ
Your daughter is doing a good job of parenting! I canβt stand the way the word βsucksβ has become so common. Itβs crude.
We left Michigan permanently in 2020. So thankful we did.
Marty where did you go ?
We moved to Florida.
Truth Lemmincakes π₯
Rocks and cows are the heart of MN. We moved here in 2020, and I had not realized that the city would run the state.
With any luck, Trump is in the process of fixing things for you.
Iβve been a poll watcher since prior to the 2016 election.
It is the same in NY. NYC runs the state.
And New Jersey
So awful. π
Minnesota is a very sad situation because I have wonderful memories of driving through many of Minnesota's small towns with their beautiful Lake settings. We now find out that Minnesota is basically a criminal Enterprise, if you look at the activity of its leaders. And with the bogus vouching rule for elections, I now understand why Minnesota was the only state Ronald Reagan didn't win-- it was vote fraud.
It was very easy for them to get away with it when you consider Hubert Humphrey and Mondale. I do not think we have had a real fair election in decades. I love Minnesota for the scenery and I love winter but I detest the politics as do most of my friends and we are all lifelong residents.
Also from Minnesota. It's sad to see what has happened there. I had a very happy childhood and teen years there in the 80's. It was idyllic.
Michigan . Witch Nessel and Benson π‘
Pretty much all blue states. They have their orders & price.
I am right there with you. I left NY state because the fascist gov. Hochul was just destroying the state, taxes were soaring upwards with no end in sight. The covid response was draconian, to say the least. Now I see it all repeating here in VA. In NY, NYC controlled the state and here, it's the North with it's dense population of DC employees and deranged leftists that control the rest of the state. I wish Winsome Sears and the VA GOP had done a little better job of campaigning and pointing out that Spam was a CIA employee. She could turn out to be worse than Hochul if that's possible. I guess I didn't move far south enough.
Glad you got out.
All conservatives, move out of the fetid blue states.
The Great Conservative Migration of 2026 is under way!
You are probably exactly right, Spam might prove to be worse because she is the face for the Fed vendetta.
We left NYS (Binghamton) in 2013 for Fort Myers. I am so so glad we made the move. I still have a lot of family in upstate NY and just shake my head at the shenanigans that have and are occurring in NY.
For the weather alone, I would imagine you're much better off. I spent a couple years up around there for college and man, was it cold.
@Clem- I'm in NY (Western). You should see our electric bills because of her policies.
I was on Long Island. Lilco, then Lipa. Both horrible.
Itβs those rich men north of Richmond.
That song became the ballad for middle class freedom. Gifted young man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ug7udnfbcE
We didn't leave California because I believed that we would see just what you're seeing in VA if we didn't change the voting laws. It's systemic.
exactly! It doesnβt take much for an area to flip. Ive felt same about FL. its amazing w Desantis but what about the next Gov?
Systemic = Satanic, Jeanne. With God's help we may get out of this death spiral.
A dear friend of mine just moved to VA to care for a family member who is elderly and declining. I could hear the fear and dismay in her voice when we spoke the other day. Know you have prayers being given for all of you in VA.
Thank you! And I will pray for your friendβs heart and worry as well.
Yes - thank you!!
Exactly the same in WA state. We escaped CA 40 years ago and have seen the decline of the state because of mail in voting and a few democrat counties.
Ironically, we chose to retire from the Army in Washington state, my last duty station, because of low taxes...
That mustβve been a a while ago. Our taxes are rivaling California now.
Twenty-something years ago, I noticed that the Muslims were emigrating to just about every country in the world. Interestingly enough, they were getting involved in politics....starting small, at the city level. Twenty-something years later, the world is a much more Muslim-centered world.....certainly not for the betterment of the "infidels" since it's proven they DO NOT assimilate. I sincerely DO NOT understand how a Muslim politician can take an oath to uphold the US Constitution when they are fundamentally opposed to everything it stands for. Same with the Soros-funded far left.
As you said, it will never work. The two worldviews are diametrically opposed.
And take the oath of office on a Koran, Austin. Deception is a tenant of Islam, and the western world is their new playground. Never has a war been so easy to win.
A devout Muslim is a Muslim above all else, above country and politics. Islam comes first. And lying for the sake of Islam is ok to them. I would encourage everyone to look up some of the interviews with Raymond Ibrahim. He explains the Muslim mindset very clearly.
It is happening in N Carolina too! Ugh
Hold on in NC. I think you now have more registered Republicans than Dems. Now, they just need to get out and vote!
Asheville for sure. And clearly pockets in Charlotte.
Biggest problem is RTP.
David Wilkerson had a vision in 1973. Six words that God told him to tell us to always remember when times get sick-hard is "God has everything under control." Our job is to pray like we are most favored children of our Father, with authority and power and dominion over the dark forces. It is the only way we win. The church has buried this authority we have in Christ and we need to take it back and use it to fight. We can't fight a spiritual battle in the natural. Good vs. evil is at play and it is everywhere. Do not be discouraged! Fight fight fight!!
Yes! GOD WINS!! Always and in all ways!!βοΈππΌπππΌπΊπΈ
And it is going to get worse for all of you with spammy. She has only just started. Please move out if you are able.
There are times that you should stand and fight rather than retreat.
EXACTLY!
...that's why we decided to stay in CA....
Much respect, Concerned. Put on the full armor of God, you, we, all need it.
agree. sad and terrifying what legislation is in the works. seriously thinking about leaving what i thought would morph into a moderate, right leaning state, especially after seeing what comes from minnesota and california-esqe debacles.
all good conservative people can do is vote with their feet and move. if they all did, how much less tax revenue in those states and would send a message. Call it The Great Conservative Migration of 2026. Let the left blow up on their own fetid petard.
If the blue states lose enough people, they will have fewer representatives in Congress as well.
They can vote with their hands on those voter cards too
NO! all good conservative people should stay and FIGHT back. Get involved in your local school boards, local elections, just the way those who oppose us are doing
NM is controlled by Albuquerque and Las Cruces. Oh yeah and by Northern NM which is Indians and old time Mexican that have been on the government teat for generations. SE NM has all the oil which supplies there free government teat milk.
Love NM but just can't live there sadly!
A day for massive celebration. The tides have turned, tables have done the same.
The AAP has always been a total criminal racket, now circling the bowl.
The net result will be healthier children as has been proven whenever the Cartel
squid like arms are restrained.
DJT consistently outsmarts lesser IQ fools, consistently.
Cheer up!!! You have the inimitable Pastor Gary Hamrick in Leesburg, VA!!!! Hopefully, you are close enough to attend his church!
I live in south east PA and I have been to Pastor Gary Hamrick church in Virginia numerous times. He pastors Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg VA. He is great Bible Teacher/Preacherβ¦this man is one of the most balanced and thorough teachers of the Bible I have ever heard. ( Iβm in my 70βs and heard a lot of pastors throughout my years). I watch him online and highly recommend him. Also, he is very knowledgeable about politics and the effects it has on the church and the works we live in todayβ¦and he also has a great sense of humor. ππ»
I often listen to his sermons too! Excellent!
As the crow flys, would probably not be too uncomfortable of a drive but the traffic lights are 4-6 minutes long in some places and then one has to get through the traffic (and Maryland drivers π I kidβ¦kinda). But we have an amazing pastor and church so for this, we are blessed. I have heard that Leesburg pastor is amazing.
FYI: cornerstonechapel.net
Check out yesterday's teaching.....A. MA. ZING!
I live in south east PA and I have been to Pastor Gary Hamrick church in Virginia numerous times. He pastors Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg VA. He is great Bible Teacher/Preacherβ¦this man is one of the most balanced and thorough teachers of the Bible I have ever heard. ( Iβm in my 70βs and heard a lot of pastors throughout my years). I watch him online and highly recommend him. Also, he is very knowledgeable about politics and the effects it has on the church and the works we live in todayβ¦and he also has a great sense of humor. ππ»
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To You I lift up my eyes,
O You who are enthroned in the heavens!
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to the LORD our God,
Until He is gracious to us.
β Psalm 123:1-2 NAS95
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On our way to the hospital. Hoping we can bug out in the morning before roads are slick. Prayers are appreciated. Thank you, friends.
Praying!! πππ
Praying for you, dear Janice!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Janice, same.
Prayers for a perfect healing procedure. π
Praying for all the many details. Thank you for your faithfulness Janice. β€οΈ
Same π
Still praying for you, Janiceπππ
Still praying for Divine Intervention.
Isaiah 53:
βHe was pierced for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healedβ
Psalms 107:20
βHe sent his word, and healed themβ¦β
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π that all goes well, Janiceπ
God is with you Janice and He will take absolute care of you.
God bless you and bless your heart.
Prayers and traveling mercies both ways! May the good, good Lord grant you His peace that is beyond understanding and His never ending grace that exceeds your imagination! May His healing hands guide the doctors and grant you the ability to actually feel His supernatural power working in you!
Joining the others here in praying your procedure will go smoothly and healing will be quick ππ»ππ»
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Praying for your health challenges, dear sister in Christ! He is able and I know you rest in His welcoming embrace each and every day.
Praying!ππΌππΌππΌ
"At this point, it is an open question whether better new reporting is produced by corporate media reporters or blind squirrels." I think the squirrels definitely win.
This is why I read Coffee & Covid! So I actually get news....
And this too ππ
βand Denmark was allowed to redeem its expired savings stamps in return for several deluxe family appliances.β
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My mom told me that she bought me with Green Stamps.
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All i got was a doll with my green stamps. Back in 1970. And yes i still have a book of green stamps partially filled.
I have two card tables and chairs that my mom got with with either S&H Green Stamps or Blue Chip stamps.
Oh wow cool. Now i am wondering if the old grey card table we have was purchased that way. πwe use it for puzzles.
Gold Bond stamps was another one.
I miss S&H Green Stamps. As a teen, I was in charge of the family Green Stamps & filling the books. I traded with friends/parents for theirs and at one point had over 100 full books! That was a shopping trip for the ages!
My very first real fishing rod came from Top Value. That kit, if you can find it, which is obviously antique now, as I am,is worth 100 times what it was in 1965?
@Renea Was it a "Sparkle Beach Ken" doll?
Hahaha no it was a sweet baby doll with a pink bow. Her body was pink checked fabric with matching skirt. She lasted until just a few years ago with my grandkids playing with her. Somehow i never got new barbies. I always had madge and the not so pretty ones. Skipper and her brother. But i dis get a cool diane carol βnurseβ barbie. So many hours playing with those.
Renea, I do too!!!
That was my favorite!! I can just imagine Denmark poring over the green stamp catalog, deciding what to get.
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Only way to make that better is if he wrote S&H green stamps, or Top Value. It was beautiful!
That certainly brought back memories! Much time spent putting the stamps into the books and dreaming of the items we could eventually redeem them for.
Can you still taste the glue?
01/22/26: Good Lord, that is true indeed. I thought I would have to continue looking for actual journalism in books published 80 years agoβ¦
Don Surber: βAfter days of saying Trump shouldnβt take Greenland by force, the disloyal opposition switched β¦β
βOver on Fox[-Pravda] [β] News [β], Byron York and Bret Baierβ started kissing ass faster than they did in 2023 when they suddenly realized that a shallow, IQ-emaciated former Carolina governor (Fox-News Corp.βs stooge) wasnβt going to make in 2024:
YORK: BROWN NOSING BROWN NOISING BROWN NOSING ---
BAIER: MORE FRANTIC BROWN NOSING ---
YORK: EVEN MORE FRANTIC BROWN NOSING ---
CASTRATTI CRESCENDO: βItβs classic Trump!β
YAY BLUE LIVES MATTER!! That's AWESOME!!! :D
Honestly, this made my day. Itβs the best idea ever, especially the part about casually driving around listening to Guns n Roses. Hahahahaha
I know right!!! Still grinning about that πππ
It made mine too!π₯π₯
I enjoyed the comment about hunting - waiting in a stand for hoursβ¦
Yes! So descriptive.
Sweet child o'mine.... yeah!!
Priceless! Love it.
Got my blue lives matters flags up but I always doβ¦ my stepson is my favorite blue life always and forever. Might be time to take the grands over again to thank our local law enforcement for all the protection they provide us. Havenβt done that in awhile! I think we will craft some thank you cards this weekend. Fabulous I was looking for a fun activity! Teaching gratitude one little at a time!
Love it! My neighbor is a "Blue Life" - I put up sign at street and our house that says we love the police!
"Blue Lives Matter" - Yes!
Yes they do, all the way!
We had an FB organized anti-protest to the ICE protest here on Saturday. Lots of cars drove by them with ICE BABY ICE blaring out the windows. lol. Made my day! Same people all the time.. lots of old white women. While I am approaching that age Iβll never understand them. My generation of white women must be why Iβve always liked men much better. π
Same here on white women vs men. Better conversations with the guysπ
yep, amazing how many times I go to get-togethers, and even when the women don't know each other, they always end up grouping themselves like a bunch of hens. And I'm always over by the men, because they're much more interesting.
π―, although it sounds like I'd enjoy a conversation with youπ
Same here! I don't know what happens to so many women to make them like that. I can't relate to them at all.
I think itβs because I grew up with older brothers. lol.
Men are much easier to live with than women! One semester in college, I shared a 2-bedroom apartment with 3 other girls. It was a disaster. We all ended up barely speaking to one another.
I see the behavior of toxic women and I told Hubs he is safe. I will never jump the fence into that other camp.
ha ha same here. I can't stand most women.
Maybe we should all start a club, "White women who enjoy the company of men..."
lol! Sounds a little naughty! π
I like you two! Tell my husband the same all the time.
Speaking of cars and (older) white women. I will never accept a Robot car. As long as there are winding, country roads, I will continue driving my 10 year old MNI.
One more thing. I find it surprising that the powers that be havenβt figured out Pres. Trumpβs MOD-yet. Duh!
A great any people LIKE driving a car, including me!
I'm 76 and I'm so incredibly disgusted so many of women in my age group. I live in a Northern California foothills area that attracts a lot of retirement age folks, and while it wasn't like this when I moved here in 1989, far too many uber liberal San Francisco and L.A. people retired here so there are many more crazy libs than before. In the recent No Kings protest I was shocked to see most of the protesters were old folks, some with walkers even! Purple hair, fat, stupid looking, and they sound like shrill idiots. I don't identify with any of them in the least and find them embarrassing. Perhaps they are holdovers from the 1960's protest days and clearly haven't learned a thing since then. Like you, I have always preferred men as friends, bosses, co-workers and this has been true my whole life. When I was a young college student, I could barely tolerate the women's libbers that were emerging at that time. I immediately perceived them as the phonies they are and didn't want to get within ten feet of them.
There was a protest in my town on the one year anniversary of Trumpβs inauguration by the usual useful idiots. A variety of signs from their previous protests: we support government workers (USFS), scientists save lives (Rocky Mountain Lab), no Kings, and the latest about ICE. π€¦π»ββοΈ
Karmy, it sounds like you are familiar with The Rocky Mountain Lab. Are you from Hamilton? I grew up there.
Yes I live in Hamilton.
Lucky you! Beautiful country. I try go get there every summer! We have a family cabin on the East Fork.
I 2nd that!
This is known as hiding the signal in the noise.
I would like to create an app that runs 24x7 hitting randomly picked websites and articles and shopping all over the Internet so the cookies and traffic Google and the other spies collect is rally nothing but noise.
Then, add location spoofing via fake GPS data and 25 million of us could destroy the value of the spy apps.
We need to also do this to the anti-ice protester websites just like the blue lives matter guys and gals. Calling in fake tips would be absolutely hilariousβ¦ π
I laughed so hard I cried. I am STILL laughing!
Bessent owned Newsom. Trump toyed with msm and panicans again. They still havenβt figured out his negotiating pattern after a decade. All they need to do is read Art of the Deal. He has also perfected the art of the troll: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-the-art-of-the-troll
The outrage loving protesters cannot read books, signs, laws, social cues, or the room π
It doesnβt take much to confuse them because they are perpetually confused and intellectually exploited by their employers. Imagine being that incapacitated and easily bamboozled.
If Trump doesnβt have a group of Leakers whispering fake news to the Fake News Media, he should! Give them the olβ razzle dazzle with stories just as fake as they publish! Theyβll never know who to trust π€‘
ol' razzle dazzle. Chicago was great.
Yuri, serious question... what are your thoughts on Trump's full support and funding of Israel's genocide?
Mass-slaughter seems to be ignored... perhaps based on the now proven IDF FALSE FLAG Oct 7 attacks?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HxzRBu5JoXA1
A serious question does not include the term "Israel's genocide".
I love it! 30 likes for the wonderful burn, and zero likes for "abiding dude's" comment so far.
You too think Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HxzRBu5JoXA1
"FALSE FLAG"
Lot of micropenis energy here.
Yes, since your dumb ass arrived...
Dispute all this and be specific as to what your micro-brain thinks is not true:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/nc9LLHL3yd3F
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HxzRBu5JoXA1
You believe that Israel has not killed well over 100,000 innocents in Gaza?
Based on a bogus Oct 7 attack they knew far in advance was coming and could have prevented?
Are you impaired somehow? OR just ignorant.
I am not ignorant and suggest you take a peek in a mirror on that front. I have no doubt that some innocent lives have been lost in Gaza. Some occasioned by Usrael but some directly at the hands of the terrorist group Hamas and all indirectly. I have no idea how many lives, innocent or otherwise, have been lost and neither do you. I do know that the likelihood of that increases when a terrorist "army" sees fit to imbed itself in a civilian population. IMO Israel has shown remarkable restraint. Lastly it is disingenuous - very, very, very disingenuous - to shriek and wail about genocide when population numbers remain remarkably consistent.
I do a ton of reading and viewing, and not the MSM puppets of Israel and teh neocons... you should try it because you RE ignorant,
Check out Col Macgregor, jeffry Sachs, Scott Ritter, Col Wilkerson, Prof merscheimer... as a start to wake your snarky ass up.
"IMO Israel has shown remarkable restraint."... jeeze, what a dumb broad.
"Judging Freedom" on You Tube is a good start... lots of great interviews with good men.
You are clueless. Utterly, completely and totally clueless. All you are doing is parroting your preferred sources. Polly need a cracker? You do not see your own blindness. Nor can you acknowledge that you do not know what is going on over there. Which means that is likely true of everything. Yet you call me dumb. You are a walking, talking, typing red flag.
They should have killed them all. That would insure another October 7 never happens again. But people like you and your misplaced empathy prevent Israel from doing what needs to be done.
What a vicious POS you are... all the women and kids too, eh? Bitch!
Another IDF Oct 7 False Flag,,, you mean, Dumbo?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HxzRBu5JoXA1
The mindless Anti-ICE freakshows were at it again. Bovino and crew were refused service at a Speedway Convenience Store in Minneapolis yesterday. That's fine. What's good for the goose...If this is the way the game is going to be played by the retards then the retards shouldn't get their panties in a twist and initiate a federal case because a couple of pastry shop owners, who just happen to be Christian, refuse to create a cake for Bob and Raoul's wedding. "Gay cake is not on the menu, ladies." Refusal of service cuts both ways, and since throwing food and spitting on agents is wholly permissible I propose - no pun intended - to respond in kind. "Yes, we shall pelt them with cooked rice, 3 day old tarts and stale churros. Feel our wrath!" I suspect Speedway - owned by 7-11 - will be receiving some interesting calls and emails.
ICE, I've got 4 words for you: "Water cannons in January." You may now use the restroom in peace....grab a coffee when you're done.
Incidentally, I had no idea that I was sitting on a potential gold mine with the: "No, shirt, no shoes, no service" restaurant and retail store mantra when I was growing up. Ah, the innocence of uncorrupted youth.
Sue their asses- they bankrupted Christians because they couldnβt make them bake the cake or provide whatever service they really DIDNT want from whatever company- they just wanted trouble.
....and the payoff of totally bogus "emotional pain and suffering." Conveniently opportunistic scumbags.
If I had been the cake shop I would have baked them the cake, but done a lousy job. I'd have been unsteady with the frosting, and not gotten the ingredients just right. Maybe put in half the sugar called for, etc.
How about putting in salt instead of sugar? π
Or frost the cake like that one episode of Friends, in which the cake was supposed to celebrate the baby's birthday...
add a little man.u.re to the batter?
Cut off ALL federal funding and sit back and watch the fireworks. When the state is no longer able to meet its financial obligations maybe the sparks will fly!
To the tune of, βLetβs go, Brandon!ββ¦ βLetβs STOP
Speedway!β
I have been trying to get on 7/11 website all morning. Maybe we crashed it?
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Oh but itβs different for THEM! πππ
South land corp will probably have something to say to their affiliates for that, Iβm guessing.
I think Fast Times at Ridgemont High used that slogan in the movie!
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant not ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the sanme, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite alot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another.
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it. βUnknown
Although I realize that this is a humorous post, a lot of these questions could be answered if English teachers knew and taught at least a little about the history of the English language and etymology. It always bugs me when people, especially teachers, answer questions about why the language is a certain way, with something along the lines of βEnglish is just weird.β No, not really. There are lots of very common and normal linguistic mechanisms in play, but few people ever learn about them so kids in school just think grammar is βdumbβ and spelling βmakes no sense.β
MGGA... make grammar great again!... oops.
English is a "borrowing language". Which is one reason for its longevity and strength.
Agree. And also very flexible for creating neologisms.
Etymology.
Is that a feature or a bug?
Check the O.E.D.
And don't get me started on the 1,000+ French words in the English language!
Oh theyβve borrowed a lot of English ones right back ππ
Such as...
There are tons! Un footing, un parking, un relooking, des baskets, un sweat, faire du camping, le week-end, un t-shirt, un short, le marketingβ¦
and thatβs just off the top of my headβ¦
I shall have to do le re-search.
Absolutely. I was one of those 'weird kids' who has always been fascinated by root words. Imagine a 14 yr old checking out huge library dictionaries and books on Latin words. LOL!! The 15 yr summer was for works of William Shakespeare.
Oh me too!! Kindred spirit!! π
This was rather whelming. Neither over or under.
To quote a lost friend:
βWhy isnβt anyone ever just βwhelmedβ?
I think they are in France.
Where the fully clothed women dance?
Which is worse? being flammable or inflammable?
(Enjoyed your post!)
Neither. Being inflamed is even worser.
This post has left me whelmed, and maybe a little gruntled.
Shame. I would have much rather it made you joyed.
Currently studying Spanish (again). Your treatise on the English language captures very well my frequent thoughts as I re-learn the grammar rules for everyday conversation.
FH, good deal. Just donβt give me a ticket for wreckless driving and we are copacetic and we wonβt learn to regret it.
" If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?" I'd call that VERY ODD cuz I'm known to hoard some "things" (I'd call them treasures, but my hubby would not agree) π
Good Morning C&C. Question: why do we continue to call corporate media "media"? They are neither stupid, clueless, nor ignorant. Nor do they deliver objective "news". They are collectively the deep state Ministry of Propaganda. Oompa Goebbels would be proud. Why can't we begin calling them what they are: Ministry of Propaganda.
We changed the definition of βvaccineβ during the pandemicβ¦maybe we should just change the definitionβ¦
Mainstream media: Where objectivity goes to die, bias gets a byline, every headline has a side hustle, and every storyline gets fact-checked by itself.
**edited for grammar
Not "We"... "They".
Big Pharma bastardo swine... and a corrupt FDA, CDC and NIH...
I stand corrected.
FWIW, I call them the Malicious Satanic Media. Kind of a mouthful, but when I say it out loud publicly, I can tell it gets some peoples' gears turning.
I thought about using 10 Spies (Numbers 13-14) but figured that would go over too many heads since most people fall alseep in the book of Numbers.
Except for Joshua and Calebβ¦ π
New name adopted, instead of MSM, let it now be MOP! Thanks Bill!
While war is peace.
AKA - the MOPS π€
Brits call the talking heads presenters. Let's follow their lead with truth and transparency.
@JeffChilders - I would love for you to implement Bill Campbell's Media=MoP (Ministry of Propaganda). No longer "Main Stream Media" - forever more to be MoP!
The Blue Lives Matter X posts and βhypotheticalβ actions were hilarious!! THIS is how itβs done!! Be creative, resourceful and smart!
I SO HOPE those posts are true facts! Oh how I would love to volunteer for that role! π€£
I would help with funds. I could not pass for a Blue but I can help those that do!
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Hope it inspires plenty of copycats.
My husband is 82 yr old retired law enforcement and a veteran. He thought post for Blue Lives Matter must be true. It was great post and he'd love to join in.
I read Steve Kirschβs post on the CHD/AAP lawsuit yesterday and it sounds explosive π₯π₯π₯ I hope this is the beginning of the end of these tyrannical βboardsβ and βassociationsβ!!
I did too! Fantastic. The saddest part of his SS was hearing a second set ot twins just passed found in their beds after receiving 3 jabs at 9am and at 7am the next day they were gone. This is pure child sacrifice and it has to be ended at any and all costs.
The TX investigation sounds promising too.
Yes, I didnβt know about that until I read Jeffβs round up today and I agree that having both of these lawsuits going on at once is very promising!!
My concern is Paxton will win his primary against Cornyn and abandon all his freedom and rights legal work.
I think he has the Texas AGs office well staffed. I think he will make an excellent Senator. I also thought he would have made an excellent US Atoorney General. Much better than Bondi IMO.
I hope they have top tier lawyers. I watch The Highwire, and Del Bigtree often goes on about how important it is to have the best lawyers working on the important cases, because messing up an important case will have consequences that can't be undone.
Jeff here talks about it too, as well as the importance of starting with smaller adversaries and building precedent to go against the well connected and wealthy targets.
And yet Bobby and the FDA/CDC still allow the Covid death jabs to be available and pushed.
Some say the maggot Susie Wiles is responsible...
HHS has pulled the recommendation for most people under 65. As we often say about Mr. Trump, let RFK Jr work.
RFK Jr has stated that he CANNOT just change some of the policies. He has to wait until some organization sues them for information or for a change in policy.
So sometimes you will hear a headline about a lawsuit against HHS framed in a way that sounds like HHS is a traitor to MAHA. But no, that's the way it has to work, and RFK wants those lawsuits.
The approval process and the EUA being granted was so corrupt, it could be revoked NOW.
The millions of dead from the Covid jabs is also reason enough to suspend all mRNA jabs until REAL safety studies can be done.
So, no, that is NOT the way it has to work... remember a previous flu jab, Swine flu or some similar... killed a small number and was quickly yanked off the market...
You're especially funny today. Loved "and a large customized fighting stick that can be affixed to a dogsled."
How does Jeff outdo himself so consistently? Heβs so funny.
Right??? ππππ€£π€£π€£ He never fails to make me laugh at least once every single day!! π
The brilliant tech people at our Pentagon have untold talents!
ββthe reason it came as surprising news to most people, is because the blind squirrels impersonating reporters at our corporate media platforms canβt spend ten seconds on Google learning the history, in order to mention it in any of their ten thousand articles about Trump βbullyingβ Denmark.β
That, and the fact that the so-called βhistory teachersβ prefer to whine about white supremacy than actually teach history π
Jeff and his subscribers saved me during the Plandemic, so a big thank you ππ½
All of this βvaccineβ news makes me want to cryβ¦tears of joy. The PEOPLE taking control and holding the villains accountable.
And how I hope Blue Lives Matter WAS involved in the ICE decoy opsβ¦how do I get in on THAT action???
Great news all aroundβ¦and the gullibility of the press (and its sheeple followers) never ceases to amaze me. We saw it. We ALL saw it. But THEY saw an impending invasionβ¦the end of the world! They canβt remove their blinders because they donβt even know theyβre wearing themβ¦
βThey canβt remove their blinders because they donβt even know theyβre wearing themβ¦β
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They know. They just don't care.
I donβt think they do. They have brain damage that shows as TDS.
TDS completely addles their brains.
And what to do about the AFWLβs π€¦π½ββοΈ
So many ideasβ¦
" AAP guidance βwhich does not generally recognize family history of vaccine reactions.β" Oh god... This is called "genetic diversity" it's a real thing. Yes, injuries run in families and in ethnic groups.
I have mentioned I was damaged at an early age, one of my sisters was too, not as bad, but noticeably. Yes, genetics are a thing in medicine.
ARGH!!!
Especially since they keep harping on family history for pretty much everything else! Even when it doesnβt necessarily make sense. I have a friend who is terrified of getting colon cancer because of her family history (her father had it and died from it) but he was a smoker and overweight and probably had other lifestyle issues that contributed greatly. She has none of those and yet her doctors tell her she needs regular colonoscopies because of her family historyβ¦
Buy her some organic apricot kernels, some ivermectin and suggest she lay off any vaxxes.
I donβt think sheβd go for it unfortunately π Sheβs one of those βI trust my doctorβ people π
I wish there was something we could do about the βwhite coatβ worshipβ¦ π€¦π½ββοΈ
Me too π
Another set of twins found dead in their cribs after getting 3 jabs at once. Jabs at 9am and found dead 7am the next morning. This is pure murder and has got to end. The AAP is demonic and I am convinced part of a child sacrifice cult.
The same demonic group that sacrifices babies to Moloch - and demands taxpayers be complicit by paying for it.
The doc in the box knows this too but got to get that quota.
Babylon Bee for a good laugh this morning π
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-disguises-himself-as-muslim-migrant-so-europe-will-let-him-invade-greenland?
This cracked me up too (not satire, itβs nice to see some push back on these lunatics!)
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/01/20/ice-agent-refuses-to-show-warrant-to-lib-because-youre-a-nobody-n2424178
I LOVE the Babylon beeβ¦ always π―
Yes. Never forget: TAW, even when he's fictional.
Schmilariousβ¦but also true.
The details like broadcasting excerpts from βThe Art of the Dealβ five times a day over a loudspeaker had me laughing so hard! ππ
I wish someone would go after the hospitals for still βmandatingβ the flu shot for employment. One of my coworkers had to get a flu shot by the end of this month or face disciplinary action, potentially termination. She did not fill out an exemption in the fall soβ¦..now essentially forced into getting one. Horrible!! Also, if you do receive an exemption they expect you to wear a mask during the flu season!!!! π€§π€§ They obviously believe that masks work!!!! Where is the science??
A friend's husband had a double lung transplant in Nov..When he was discharged in Jan., he was told he needs to wear a mask in public spaces. If at a restaurant, he can take it off when seated. This was advised by Cleveland Clinic transplant clinic.
So.... If he can take it off when seated - (obviously!) it isn't necessary!
I just get so tired of the stupidity!
Wonder if he was forced to get the covid jab to receive the transplant. hospitals were not allowing xplants unless you took the jab. I hope he does well and is with us for decades!
Oy Vey, how stupid.
There is one mask, I would have to look up now, we had to wear,both my wife and I, when she had a stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma. It looks like a duck bill, and does offer viral protection. Itβs required when youβre in the area of moffitt where these transplants take place. And she had to wear it outside the home for a few months after her transplant. But there is one, and it sure as hell isnβt an n95, a bra cup, or a tee shirt.
I had to take my mom to urgent care last week. First question from PA was βHave you had the Covid or flu vaccines?β Mom said no, I donβt take vaccines.β PA said, βGood for you. Stay strong!β
I completely agree!! These mandates are so coercive, ridiculous and useless!
FYI inside observation. Local medical complex has staff mask mandate with multiple staff emails to the effect. Yet, I witnessed bare faces in a variety of settings, with no admonishment suffered from colleagues nor patients.
It is increasingly common for new parents to be questioning vaccine safety, even in the face of repeated obtuse nurse/doctor insistence. ("mothers know best, but, really, are you ready for the shots now? Are you ready now? I'll just bring them now. So, we can bring them now...." ).
NO is a good word. I can sympathize with the usage of "forced" under the subtext of employment, but more is expected of us now. We can expect of ourselves to know our NOs well and enunciate clearly. And still, even the Bartleby the Scrivener NO can often be sufficient and get the job done: "I prefer not to..." and simply not doing without direct confrontation. It takes a lot of work to force someone, especially if the one tasked with forcing doesn't really want to force.
I had a follow up appt for my broken ribs today, and yesterday they (back room office busy bodies) called and canceled saying βI donβt know who scheduled you but Dr so-and-so doesnβt treat broken ribs anymore, we are canceling your appointment.β π³ Iβve been waiting three weeks! And Iβm having some significant increase in discomfort. I was so angry that they waited until the day before, punishing me rather than chastising their scheduler but honoring my appt, and causing me to lose three weeks of being able to find someone else. I was lying in bed giving them a chew-out in my mind in several different ways when I remembered that last month when they xrayed my rib cage all the ladies behind the desk were in masks. ALL of them. Lunatics.
Maybe this is a good thing that I peel away from their clinic. But I really like the actual doctors there. They donβt wear masks and are some of the best Orthopaedics. Now I have to figure out where to go for follow up! Most places make you wait several months unless youβre already an established patient. Grrrr
I really really hate our medical institutions today.
I Broke a rib three weeks ago coughing myself sillyβ¦ flu, then viral pneumonia kind of does that, unfortunatelyβ¦ Iβm sorry you are in pain. π’ At this point, Iβm not really sure what theyβre going to be able to do for you if itβs just broken ribsβ¦ is anything else going on that they can help with? Otherwise, doctors are practically useless. Sometimes itβs just taking time to healβ¦ ππ½ππ½ππ½
If youβre anything like me, resting is a foreign concept. It makes it very hard to heal. I just said a prayer for you juju. ππ½ππ½ππ½ Believe me, I can empathize. Broken ribs are not comfortable at all! π¬π΅π©
They canβt do anything for it I know, but Iβd feel better having regular check ins to make sure something worse isnβt going unnoticed. I have kept myself basically in bed for three weeks now, occasionally sitting up on the couch for a change of sanity. Babying myself. But itβs hurting worse. This whole week Iβve had a pain that felt like someone was slicing me with a razor just under my skin above the two ribs with the slightest movements and turns. Sleeping hurts and wakes me up as lying on either side makes it hurt, obviously I canβt lay long on the broken side, but then the weight of my breast laying over the broken side when I turn to the unbroken side is excruciating too. I assume a man could have that same problem if they have muscle in their chest adding that weight. I try to remain flat on my back but thatβs hard because Iβm not a natural back sleeper.
Iβm lying here replying having been awake for 48 hours now as I couldnβt sleep last night. I would have appreciated a second round of X-rays to compare with the first and check progress. Thatβs what they did with the last rib I broke last year. It helped to see the healing and how good the bone was regrowing over it since I have advanced osteo. It helped me get through the pain seeing all was progressing as it should. I hate not knowing if what Iβm feeling is ok, not being able to have monitoring appts. So stupid that they stopped treating fractured ribs. When you have this kind of pain, piece of mind makes a huuuuge difference to our ability to get through it.
I started rubbing DMSO on mineβ¦ Used some menthol patches as well that seem to help. The lidocaine patches might as well have been thrown in the garbage. π I really do think the DMSO helped. Especially that first week when it was very UNCOMFORTABLE! π£ Sneezing and coughing are quite fun right nowβ¦ Would you agree with that statement? π« I just love the feeling of being disemboweled through my right rib areaβ¦ π©π©π©
Does splinting help at all? You could always rub the area with DMSO, let it dry then get a menthol patch and splint it with an ace wrap to kind of support it?? IDKβ¦ π’ππ½
Darn, did you fall? Car wreck?
fell on the ice on a stoop outside. My feet slipped behind me so my chest landed smack dab solid on the stoop. Iβm 5β2β so that was about a 5β straight shot fall.
I do have some DMSO cream with that menthol effect to it. I bought it for itching on my arms not realizing it was like a Ben Gay type thingy so couldnβt use it for my itching. Thanks for the reminder! Iβm going to try that today.
Can you bind yourself for comfort?
A lot of my pain has been in my back as wellβ¦ I think once everything is healed Iβm going to the chiropractor! Iβm probably all out of whack! π«€
I canβt use a chiropractor because I have severe advanced osteoporosis. My T-scores are what is commonly found in those 20-30 years older than me. It was caused by too many years taking omeprazole.
I started using homeopathic remedies last year and they are amazing! You can search Joette Calabrese on the internet she has articles on fractures which will give you a quick answer to remedies that will help with the pain and healing. On Substack, Homepathy Rising is an awesome resource to learn about homeopathy. Praying for a rapid recovery!
Hate them everyday. They are worthy.
Orthopaedics- that don't treat broken bones? As ribs are bones. Stoopid.
This is an example of institutionalized stupidity. Add a rule/policy during a stupid, emotional period and never go back and fix the stupid.
For that at NASA. Stay 6 feet away from the Artemis II crew during "quarantine" pre launch phase.
Do they not realize walking through a building with hundreds of people to use a shared training station is NOT quarantine? SMH
If I had ONE wish it would be that Trump comes clean and quits supporting the Bio-weapon Death Shot! That fact that he refuses to call the pseudo-"vaccine" what it is, a weapon of mass destruction employed for the purpose of depopulation, makes me question everything else he does as possibly misleading and deceptive. I realize this is an inconvenient truth but how can I trust someone who supports, even implicitly, mass murder and genocide?
I do not expect a real answer to that question.
Insanity!